... Country: USA . Area of science: Astronomy . Message: . What does light from a MO V star look like from a planet's surface? ... In the story I'm working on, I have a group of people (Humans) living on a mercury sized planet orbiting a MO V star. ...
... it had gained so much mass it was the size of Mercury (4900 km or 3000 miles across ... material that has sublimated off the surface, destined to become the comet's tail ... Also, a planet the size of Mercury would alter the orbits of other planets. ...
... us; when there is a gigantic flare, or other explosions on the surface of the Sun, vast streams of charged particles are sent ... Obviously, mass mustn't either, or else Jupiter would dominate the planets, and poor tiny Mercury would be left out. ...
... At Mercury's orbit, the temperature would be well above the boiling point of water-- as a matter of fact, the temperature near Mercury is enough to melt lead! ...
... You'd see an Mercury rocket miraculously change in to a Saturn. ... the people can walk and drive on the surface, but the gravity is so light that they ... of burying the bomb; if it sits on the surface, half of the energy of the explosion ...